Which Youtube video worked, which ones flopped ?

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Making a Youtube video from scratch is not easy. And I have to say I have lost the motivation for it. 
It takes a lot of time and you are not even sure someone will watch it. 

My goal was to create one long episode per month. 
And so far, I only reached 10 episodes, although it's been now 11 months into the sabbatical. 

Here below are the ones that totally flopped. 
One only got 312 views as of now... 
This one is fine, as it was rather fast to create and I actually had pleasure editing it.

However, for the "TOP 10 Galeres" and the "6 months review", it took so much time to create and edit, I poured all my heart in, for just a bit more than 1000 views each. 

It think these back to back flops in October had me demotivated. 



 But I still released one more video, "5 reason not to live aboard" that I think could be the last if I can't summon more strength in me to create 2 more...

However, that  last one had a good viewing, 4000 views so far. But strangely I don't feel more motivated to continue. 

Anyways, our very first episode was definitely the best one, totalling 13 k views, followed by the episode introducing the interior of our Oceanis 40 CC. 



I am still happy I tried being a content creator for year, it was really a good experience. 

And tools like Capcut really made it easy for a beginner. 


Hopefully these videos will garner more views coming forward, so that all these efforts don't go to waster after we finish this gap year!

One ore 2 more months to go and we are done, after refurbishing the boat!

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